Can't do The Division. Just can't stand the game. btw I gave up on it about 6 hours after I last mentioned it.

I haven't touched AC Origins in a couple weeks. It does a lot of things well but I just don't feel like playing it.

I picked up cheap copy of ME Andromeda, and so far I'm pretty impressed. I'm guessing I'm benefitting from the various fixes they did since the game came out a while ago. Probably will take me a while to go through it, just playing it casually.

Ghost Recon Wildlands is reasonably fun. There's not a lot of depth to it - find base, kill bad guys, pick up [thing], repeat, but the controls work pretty well and most of the vehicles are pretty cool. (But I can be easily impressed, I'm obsessed with driving vehicles in video games, especially tractors and stuff.) I also curse at the game quite a bit though, and there's some really lame collision bugs, like one time I pressed the "climb" button near a train car, and my player climbed through the wall of the train car, and got stuck inside behind some large box. And I've also gotten stuck at least twice while trying to climb a mountain, and somewhere falling in a spot where I couldn't escape. So that's pretty lame, but overall it's a good enough time so far.

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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 5:25 pm Post subject:

I had to rage pretty hard playing Wildlands today. It was horrible. I spent a fair amount of time sneaking through this rock mining facility, took out most of the enemies without being seen, but then right toward the end apparently they found a body. And when that happened, the manager of the place (just some accountant or something) got scared jumped in a car and drove off, and I failed the mission because I had to interrogate him. Sucked!!!! So I tried it again - I got about halfway clear, didn't bother being too thorough and just focused on the manager. It actually went sideways at that point and the @#$@$@# jumped in the car again, but I got in at the same time so he got back out. I then grabbed him by the neck and dragged him into a building so I could interrogtae him while not dying due to helicpter shooting at me. After that I suddenly had to drive to a place 1.0km+ away on a time limit, and I barely made it - but I made it! So I free some kind of hostage, and the next step is I have to extract this guy to yet some other place, but there weren't any vehicles right nearby to drive him in. Almost immediately yetmore bad guys show up (ughhhh!!!!) and I put up a valiant fight, but ultimately got killed by the enemies. And then naturally it @#$@#ing spawns me @#$@#ing back at the @#$@#ing rock quarry, where I have to do @#$@#ing everything over again.

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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 5:42 pm Post subject:

I have to clarify that it's a really fun game, but @#$@$@#

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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 9:27 am Post subject:

when parachuting almost works but then goes horribly wrong :(

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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:27 am Post subject:

Oops. ;)_________________Mike Kasprzak
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Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2018 6:07 pm Post subject:

I went back to the rock quarry mission and I was able to beat it this time. I am still a little bit sour on the mission design, because it doesn't give you any warning that you're going to have to suddenly have a timer to get somewhere or that there's gonna be a bunch of bad guys when you get there, etc. so in my case it came down to "try it and fail to learn the requirements" which is a bummer. I had another mission do something similar today, so maybe I need to adapt and expect at any time a mission could turn into a "chase this guy in the car you don't have ready" or some such thing.

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Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:31 pm Post subject:

Wildlands is fun so long as you have a helicopter.

Wildlands is a slog so long as you do not have a helicopter.

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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 12:02 am Post subject:

After completing the story mode (with Charge Blade), I've started using the Bow again in Monster Hunter World. Finally feeling comfortable with it (i.e. I'm actually doing a respectable amount of damage).

In the endgame now. I believe I'm Hunter Rank 47, just 2 more until the next rank barrier. Then the final barrier is at rank 100. Honestly I'm not sure I'll get that far, but I'll certainly still play some after breaking 50+. After going Bow, the HR 29 barrier was easy (got wrecked with Charge Blade, heh).

I almost have all top tier weapons for Charge Blade. Bow I have nearly half._________________Mike Kasprzak
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Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:46 pm Post subject:

Phew! Beat the Tempered Kirin (lightning horse). It used to be able to one shot us, but I put together a build with high Lightning Resistance. My rank is now 51. Technically I'm ahead of my usual co-horts I play with. That'll be fun news to share.

All that's left is one crazy fight at rank 100 (that we know of). There's still stuff to unlock. Again, I'm not yet convinced I'll make it that high, not unless the Tempered Elder Dragon farming is super valuable (1-2 levels each), because that's pretty much what the game is now.

If there is something beyond 100, there's no way I'm getting it.

Yay._________________Mike Kasprzak
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